Bullhead

A 5% cut in their annual budget increase and suddenly "the sky is falling".

If these government bureaucrats can't manage better than this, then they all deserve to be out on the street.

We all know there is abundant government waste, yet these "managers" propose cuts to core functions and vital resources as their first idea in order to get everyone's attention and try to prove the worth of their little fiefdom.

If these managers can't find 5% waste and/or non-noticeable cuts, then they deserve to be fired!

realitycheck

"Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved."

realitycheck

"The finger-pointing began during the third presidential debate last fall, on Oct. 22, when President Obama blamed Congress. “The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed,” Obama said. “It is something that Congress has proposed.” The White House chief of staff at the time, Jack Lew, who had been budget director during the negotiations that set up the sequester in 2011, backed up the president two days later. “There was an insistence on the part of Republicans in Congress for there to be some automatic trigger,” Lew said while campaigning in Florida. It “was very much rooted in the Republican congressional insistence that there be an automatic measure.” The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors."

Wolverine52

as to the comment to fly..hey ever hear and we still do "its clintons fault"? Just remember what we got when we had bush in office, a gop senate and house. Now we just have a house and senate minority that just says no, even though its there idea. Just take the rubio thing. Obama comes out with the same things..its dead on arrival..rubio does the exact same one and its a future.

flyonthewall

And let's not forget failed VP candidate Ryan. He said of the sequester "What conservatives like me have been fighting for, for years are statutory caps on spending, legal caps in law that says government agencies cannot spend over a set amount of money. And if they breach that amount across the board, sequester comes in to cut that spending, and you can't turn that off without a supermajority vote. WE GOT THAT IN LAW. That is here."

And then he said during the campaign "Now there’s one thing we’re going to have to deal with to make sure we protect jobs in Virginia and around America. And that is these devastating defense cuts that president Obama is promising."

Dolt votes for the cuts, brags about them, and then tries to lay blame elsewhere. How do people believe someone like this? Easy, keep repeating it as suggested by someone below.

Wolverine52

yah casue also Boahner said he got 96% of what he asked for. Sure is all Obama's fault. When will it finally be the congressman/Senators fault. They like to say leadership but exhibit none themselves. But hey what do they care they will get a paycheck no matter what and with the B S jeery mandered districts have no fear of being voted out as long as they say the same drivle to the low brows as they eat it up..

Jellymon

Hey fly, a question for you about your blame game therory. Have you ever heard the phrase 'Bush's fault'? He's not in office and hasn't been around for over 4 years. The new catch phrase that you should be saying over and over is "it's Barrack Hussein Obama's fault".

GrantCountyPatriot

Both of the West Virginia Senators voted against a national budget every year since Obama has been President. They support everthing he does. Now the people have to start paying the bills for their ignorance. Put on your seat belts the rough ride is just starting. Going to start paying for the freebies.

flyonthewall

"And I think ole Barry is stressin about it too. He should. He's the one that insisted on Sequestration."

Nah, it's the other side who is stressing. McCain said on 8/14/12 "“We did a stupid thing when we said if the select committee failed then there would be automatic across-the-board cuts.” Repub chairman McKeon Armed Services said "I voted for it because I was told the supercommittee couldn’t fail, because sequestration was so bad that they would have to come together on that. Well, obviously it didn’t work, so now we find ourselves in a very difficult situation. Can I go back knowing what I know now, and change my vote then?"

Time to shift to the blame game, all the while voting to support something they thought would not happen. Obama's "idea" was a balanced approach to include new revenue(tax reform) and not just cuts alone. See Obama statement 11/21/11. The simple way out, say Obama has not offered a plan/lead and repeat, repeat, repeat. It'

cacsmth

I'm a civil war buff but last time I was in the Antietam visitors center there wasn't much happening. So much waste everywhere. Just look at the local school system, paying people to take smoke breaks in the cars.